For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.” — Rob Bignell Copy Share Image
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“In poetry magic & science must co-exist. They must creatively interact to create a new poetry of artistic transformation.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer. Rare is the rose-burst of dawn, but the secret… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels;… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violates are blue, hes for me not for you, if by chance you take my place, I'll take my… — Anna Copy Share Image
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Was it beautiful? My world? The kids on my block played T-ball and Tetris one accidentally shot a boy in the desert.… — Kim Young Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
“Receio que a poesia é pior que o sexo tântrico: não mexe nem sai de cima. I'm afraid that poetry is worse… — Victor Eustáquio Copy Share Image
“You said we can't happen, but darling, we started happening the very first day we met.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Verse is vibin with the aura more important imported from my heart distorted portions get recorded for mass absorption — C-DASH Copy Share Image
“He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
